Hummingbird Bread with Cream Cheese Frosting

This easy hummingbird bread recipe is full of the flavors of the classic southern cake! This simple quick bread recipe is filled with sweet flavor, and is topped with the best cream cheese frosting!

The other day, my sister sent me a video of my adorable niece clapping her little hands and saying, “Auntie!” You can only imagine the puddle of heart eyes I melted into, because it was one of the sweetest things I had ever heard.

My niece and nephew are just so incredibly cute that I don’t know how my siblings ever discipline them when they need to.

Thank goodness I’m the aunt and can spend alllll my time plying them with hugs and cookies. 🙂

Or maybe it’s plying them with cookies so they’ll want to hug me?

???

I’m not necessarily above bribery…

Eh, either way, being the aunt means all the fun, and none of the responsibility.

I’m also pretty sure my niece would loooove me forever if I shared a slice of this bread with her.

Banana bread recipes are certainly nothing new over here. In fact, you might even say that I’m a tad obsessed with banana breads…and you’d probably be right.

Banana bread = my entire heart.

But, today, this recipe is not just for classic banana bread.

Oh, no.

This recipe is for a sweet, nutty banana bread that is traditionally known as Hummingbird Bread.

Well, in all truth, I’m not entirely sure Hummingbird Bread is all that traditional. Hummingbird Cake is a traditional southern dessert, and while cake and I are pretty much bffs for life, I was more in the mood for bread when I was recipe testing.

Not to pat myself on the pack or anything, but the bread route was a great, great idea.

Hi, Lynn! With the amount of bananas in this recipe, I thought the bread was perfectly moist (even my taste testers thought so too) so, personally, I would not include the oil. :-) I also did use pineapple juice as well. :-)

Hi, Cindy! If it's not too hot, it can be left out at room temperature stored in either an airtight container, ziplock bag, or covered with plastic wrap. :-) If it were summertime, I would suggest refrigerating it due to the cream cheese in the frosting. Thanks!

Has anyone tried to make this delicious looking bread gluten free since the only substitutes in the ingredients would be the flour(s) and possibly the amount of baking soda? If so, would appreciate knowing the changes that were made including baking temp. and time. Thanks.

I also found this on Pinterest and it is a delicious version of the traditional Hummingbird Cake but in bread form. I did find that I had to bake for 50/60 min instead of the 30/35 in recipe. As thick as this batter was I would be surprised if it did bake in the time listed in the directions.